Welcome to the "Little Russia" in San Antonio, TX

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Russia: Info from the CIA World Fact Book (25 kb of text + 37 kb of inline images)

Russian major attractions. Featuring: Moscow - Architecture of XIII-XIX centuries, The Museum of Wooden Architecture in Kizhi (Karelia) , The Palekh's Art of Laquer Miniatures , and The Trinity-St. Sergiy Lavra .

Musical treasure of Russia.

1. The "Little Russia" Music page features a Recordings Presentation, containing more than 200 audio and 13 video clips , a collection of Russian romantic songs , POP Music , and artists' songs and lyrics. The lyrics have been saved in GIF format and do not require any Russian font for reading. Many images are "sensitive" - that is, the text is read aloud when you click on it. Currently, some 50+ songs are presented in au format. Some of them are accompanied by Quicktime movie clips.
2. Russian Club's (MIT) Collection of Song Lyrics ( KOI8 font required).

Networks . Russian network maps and list of the Internet servers in Russia and other FSU countries. Contains click-and-go map of Russia ( sensitive network map ) .

X.500 gateway to Russia (RU domain). People often ask whether there is a "white pages" for the Internet -- a directory of people, computers, services, as well as electronic mail addresses. The X.500 standard is now being used to implement such a service. Please try it if you are looking for someone in Russia.

Computer games and fonts . My collection of Russian computer games, fonts, keyboard drivers and information on the "russification" of the computers. You can also find some useful notes about WWW and Cyrillic on the FREEnet Server . Russification of the Macintosh computer was best described by Matvey Palchuk

My Travel Agency:

• The State Department's Travel Advisory , Dec 1994
• A Brief Visit to Russia. Steven Grimm offers a presentation on visiting Russia.
• The Russian Consulate General in Seattle, Washington provides instructions on obtaining business , tourist and personal visas for travel to Russia.
• Airline reservation and ticketing service information - a free on-line service provided by "PC Travel" agency via telnet. Offers schedules and fares for over 500 airlines (tickets will be FedEx'ed to you in the Continental US at no extra charge).
• Other Sources of on-line travel information

How to buy Russian articles in USA:

• Russian books, newspapers, videos etc.
• Russian Fine Art - Muscovy Imports

News

1. Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty Daily reports via gopher or WWW
2. The St.Petersburg Press Provides general news about the CIS.
3. Usenet Newsgroups

Russian and Soviet Archives.

• At sunsite.unc.edu
• At path.net (Includes KGB Archives)
• At Texas A&M University
• At the University of Hawaii
• CSSCR at the University of Washington
• ABSEES provides abstracts of nearly all publications relating to Eastern Europe and the FSU. (login: absees, password: slavibib)

Getting US visas, work permits, green cards etc.

1. Advices from experienced people.
2. Student Opportunities
3. The Internet Immigration Law Center - Immlaw Advisories
4. INS Home Page
5. Siskind and Susser, Attorneys at Law Practicing exclusively in the area of U.S. immigration and nationality law.
6. Papyrus Media's Careers On-Line The database of international employment opportunities.
7. Online Career Center

Links to other network centers in America providing information on FSU countries.

Humor. Here you can find a few Russian anecdotes translated into English. For those who are interested in Russian texts, I recommend two collections: ftp.cs.umd.edu and sunsite.unc.edu (You will need KOI8 Russian font in order to read those anecdotes)

Vladimir Pekkel pekkel@uthscsa.edu
Editor: Douglas Rains
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Created on 04/01/94 and continuously updated

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